Occupying Sri Lankan soldier hospitalised after shooting himself in Jaffna

Tamil Affairs Feb 03
A Sri Lankan military soldier has been admitted to hospital in critical condition after attempting to take his own life by shooting himself in Jaffna last week. The injured soldier has been identified as H. M. W. P. Bandara, a resident of Kurunegala, who was attached to the 523rd Army Camp located in Chavakachcheri. He is currently receiving treatment at Jaffna Teaching Hospital, where medical staff have described his condition as critical.
Tamils in Vavuniya rally against Sinhala settler colonisation project
Tamil Affairs Feb 03
A large protest was held in Nedunkerni in Vavuniya against the Sri Lankan government’s proposed Kivul Oya Reservoir Project, with demonstrators warning that the scheme is being used to colonise the Tamil homeland with Sinhala settlers and push demographic change in the area.
Rajapaksa family summoned in renewed criminal investigations
Tamil Affairs Feb 03
Shiranthi Rajapaksa, the wife of former Sri Lankan president Mahinda Rajapaksa, appeared before the Financial Crimes Investigation Division (FCID) to provide a statement in connection with investigations into alleged financial irregularities linked to the ‘Siriliya’ organisation, a firm she founded and ran during the time her husband was president.
'Black January' remembered in Mullaitivu as journalists demand justice for slain colleagues
Tamil Affairs Feb 02
Journalists in Mullaitivu commemorated Black January last week, with a remembrance ceremony and the distribution of leaflets, honouring media workers who were killed or forcibly disappeared by the Sri Lankan state.
NPP MP requests Sri Lankan military to return privately owned land in Jaffna
Tamil Affairs Feb 02
S. Bavanandarajah, a National People’s Power (NPP) Member of Parliament from Jaffna, has stated that he has formally requested the Sri Lankan military to vacate an army camp located on privately owned land in the Sanganai area and to return the land to its rightful owners.
Navigating the new world 
Tamil Affairs Feb 02
When Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney acknowledged that the global order is in a state of “rupture” last month, he gave voice to what many across the world have already felt for some time. The old certainties of the West are collapsing and longstanding alliances are being recalibrated. The world is changing. Where does that leave Eelam Tamils and the ongoing struggle for liberation? 
'The Eelam Dialogues: Voices of Resistance' - Sixth edition of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale
Tamil Affairs Feb 01

Arivu concert

British Tamils rally against PTA outside Sri Lanka High Commission
Tamil Affairs Jan 31
British Tamils staged a demonstration outside the Sri Lankan High Commission in London this month, condemning ongoing repression in Sri Lanka and demanding the immediate repeal of the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA).
Sri Lankan military returns Pandatharippu land to Manipay Pradeshiya Sabha
Tamil Affairs Jan 30
Sri Lankan military personnel who had been stationed on land in Pandatharippu belonging to the Manipay Pradeshiya Sabha have fully vacated the premises, with the land formally handed back to civilian authorities last week.
Sri Lanka blocks UNHCR from Rohingya refugees held by military for over a year
Tamil Affairs Jan 29
The Sri Lankan government has continued to deny access to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to more than 100 Rohingya refugees, including women and children, who have been held under military custody for over a year at an occupying air force base in Mullaitivu.
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